Table 3.

Restrictions in Japan, Europe, the US, Australia, and China.

Country	Restrictions
Japan [41]	DiNP and DEHP are banned in toys; DEHP is banned in food-handling gloves
Europe [42,43]	DEHP, DBP, DiBP, and BBP are banned in all PVC and plasticized toys and childcare articles; DiNP, DiDP, and DnOP are banned for products that can be placed in children’s mouth
The United States [44]	Products containing DEHP, DBP, and BBP at levels >0.1% by weight shall be banned, especially children’s toys, and childcare articles; children’s products that can be placed in a child’s mouth or childcare articles containing more than 0.1% of DiNP, DiDP, and DnOP are banned
Australia [45]	Children’s plastic products containing, or have a component containing more than 1% by weight DEHP are banned
China (National Standard of the People’s Republic of China)	16 phthalates are restricted in food and food containers, including DNP, DnOP, DEHP, DiNP, DiBP, BBP, etc; dissolved DEHP in transfusion (infusion) equipment is restricted to less than 10 mg/mL; the total amount of DEHP, BBP, DBP in childcare articles should not be more than 0.1%.